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Cryptojacking Coinhive Miners for the first time found on the Microsoft Store

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The malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts were delivered leveraging the Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library. “As soon as the apps are downloaded and launched, they fetch a coin-mining JavaScript library by triggering Google Tag Manager (GTM) in their domain servers.

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Other 3,700 MikroTik Routers compromised in cryptoJacking campaigns

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Thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers are involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns. The exploit code for the CVE-2018-14847 vulnerabilities is becoming a commodity in the hacking underground, just after its disclosure crooks started using it to compromise MikroTik routers. Summarizing, more than 370,000 of 1.2

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New Pro-Ocean crypto-miner targets Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle WebLogic, and Redis installs

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. “LD_PRELOAD forces binaries to load specific libraries before others, allowing the preloaded libraries to override any function from any library. One of the ways to use LD_PRELOAD is to add the crafted library to /etc/ld.so.preload.” ” continues the analysis. Pro-Ocean deploys an XMRig miner 5.11.1

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Oracle critical patch advisory addresses 284 flaws, 33 critical

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The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable. The advisory fixed the CVE-2016-1000031 flaw, a remote code execution (RCE) bug in the Apache Commons FileUpload, disclosed in November last year.

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The Long Run of Shade Ransomware

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As stated in a recent Eset report , the Shade infection had an increase during October 2018, keeping a constant trend until the second half of December 2018, taking a break around Christmas, and then resuming in mid-January 2019 doubled in size (shown in Figure 1). Information about miner executable. Conclusions.

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Interpol: Goldfish Alpha operation reduces cryptojacking by 78%

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” In August 2018, researchers from Trend Micro and Qihoo 360 Netlab reported that hundreds of thousands of MikroTik routers around the world had been infected as part of a massive cryptojacking campaign. The campaign was first spotted by the researcher who goes online with the Twitter handle MalwareHunterBR in July 2018.

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Hundreds of thousands MikroTik Routers involved in massive Coinhive cryptomining campaign

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Experts uncovered a massive cryptojacking campaign that is targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. — MalwareHunterBR (@MalwareHunterBR) July 30, 2018. — MalwareHunterBR (@MalwareHunterBR) July 30, 2018. ” reads the report published by Trustwave.

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